Asia

2013

New
York, March 11, 2013--Authorities in the Philippines should bring to justice the
perpetrators responsible for a March 6 attack on a freelance journalist, the
Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

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Veteran investigative journalist Wang Keqin left his job at a prominent Chinese newspaper on February 25, 2013. An Agence France-Presse report citing two journalists who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal said that Wang was pressured into leaving by management at the Economic Observer.

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New York, March 5, 2013--The Sri Lankan Defense Ministry says
it wants to identify sources who provided information to the UK-based
broadcaster Channel 4 for a new documentary alleging that government forces
committed war crimes during the country's long civil conflict, The Divaina, aSinhala-language daily, reported today. In response, the producer issued
a statement saying that no "resident anywhere in Sri Lanka helped us with this
film."

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New York, March 5, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists
condemns an attack on Saturday against a pregnant journalist covering a land
dispute in East Kalimantan
province, Indonesia. CPJ calls on
authorities to conduct an immediate and thorough investigation that leads to
the apprehension of all those who participated in the brutal assault, which the
journalist said had led to a miscarriage.

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New
York, March 4, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Chinese
authorities to bring criminal charges against assailants who attacked a German
TV crew in the city of Sanhe, approximately 30 miles east of Beijing.

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March
1, 2013, New York--Pakistani authorities should investigate today's murder of a
journalist in the country's restive Baluchistan province, determine the motive,
and apprehend the perpetrators immediately, the Committee to Protect
Journalists said today.

Police
arrested Muthi-Ur-Rahman Siddiqui on August 29, 2012, and accused him of being
involved in a terror plot to kill Hindu nationalist leaders and journalists in
Bangalore, in the southern state of Karnataka. Siddiqui worked as a reporter
for the Deccan Herald and covered
higher education.